SimEdge releases freeware Algés Helipad (Lisbon - LPJB) for P3D

The Algés Heliport is the most active civilian heliport in the region of Lisbon and is surrounded by some great locations for sight-seeing.

Embedded by the spirit of the discoveries, Lisbon is a city filled with landmarks that make for a great landscape both in the ground and up in the air.

Surrounded by 7 hills and bathed by the Tagus River, the city is served by the longest bridge in Europe as well as a twin bridge to the Golden Gate, in San Francisco which, curiously, is sided by the "Cristo-Rei", a sort of replica of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

It would be a matter of time until a civilian heliport dedicated to tourism would be built in the city. Well, not exactly inside the city, but Algés is just outside to the West. The Algés Heliport (LPJB) was built a few years ago by a private company and it's mainly used for touristic flights

The monuments in the city are fabulous and, not being a huge city -- by the US standards -- it's easy and fast to fly all around it and get to know it pretty well. Algés is pretty close to the region where the Portuguese seamen shipped to discover the world. The whole downtown is filled with great and impressive buildings.

P3D already has a few of these buildings in the default scenery (not all of them) and now you have another excuse to fly around in your cool helicopter. Considering there are a couple of other airports around (Lisbon International -- LPPT -- and Cascais -- LPCS --, where the company that owns the heliport has its headquarters, there's plenty to do around.

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More about this scenery

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Characteristics

Terrain type

Urban

Altitude

3m / 10ft

Helipads

Yes

About Sérgio Costa

Sérgio has been a flight simulation enthusiast for nearly 25 years. His passion with helicopters developed during MSFS 2000 when he discovered the complexity of these aircraft and the challenge it was to control them.
Since then he has been primarily a helicopter flight simmer, trying his best not to crash and kill all his virtual passengers.
Sérgio is HeliSimmer's editor and writer and one of the Three Grumpy Simmers, a YouTube series and Podcast produced together with YouTubers Bel Geode and NovaWing24, obviously dedicated to flight simulation.